Sunday, February 2, 2020

Continuous Motion and Skill

As has been previously discussed, Bergson's classification of Continuous Motion as Metaphysical implies that Discontinuous Motion is Physical.  A different concept of the relation between Continuous and Discontinuous Motion is evident in ordinary experience.  A familiar experience is learning a skill--walking, playing a musical instrument, plying a tool--and there is usually a moment at which the phase of learning transitions into the phase of learnt.  Distinguishing the two phases is usually the Discontinuous Motion in the process of learning, and the Continuous Motion of an acquired skill.  But, whether or not the learner has passed from a Physical realm to a Metaphysical realm, a more modest explanation is that Learning is constituted by the application of a Formal Cause to a sequence of Motions.  It is once that Formal Cause is incorporated in the sequence of Motions that the Motions evince Continuity.  So, from ordinary experience, the Continuous Motion-Discontinuous Motion difference can be discerned in the contrast of skilled behavior and unskilled.

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